Jammu, February 11: Indian government has shown its mettle by wasting little time to register a case of sedition against the students who organized anti-India seminar in Jawahar Lal Nehru University yesterday and raised anti-national slogans in broad day light abusing the freedom that this democracy gives us all.
The beauty of democracy is its freedom to everybody irrespective of caste creed and colour and India is a champion of such a democracy, but unfortunately some people are hell-bent to abuse this freedom thus creating a situation every now and then that threatens tear the secular fabric of the country.
However the democracy also needs discipline and such people need to be roped in instead of giving them long rope for their anti-national activities.
Manipulating the democracy to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere in the country cannot and should not be allowed as there can’t be two yardsticks to measure the freedom of the individuals according to their religion or political affinity.
The humanity was earlier ruled by religion and it was treated as supreme but later democracy took over to give wider powers to common man which implies that there is no role of religion in any political or democratic activity.
But some people are still swearing by religion to whip up the emotions of the youth to reap their political harvest.
Had it not been so why would people take democracy to such an situation where a few goons celebrating their victory in polls kill an innocent boy and go scot free or raise anti-India slogans and get so called intellectual support in return.
The people who are demanding freedom forget that they were responsible for the forced exodus of seven lakh Kashmiri Pandits and no one called them communal while their children are roaming free all over India and still swear by independence.
It is therefore time that India rises to the occasion and stops the decades old appeasement policy by cutting these anti-national brats to size and tell them that democracy also needs discipline and the most important nationalism to survive.
Meanwhile Delhi Police today registered a case of sedition in connection with an event at JNU against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru following complaints by BJP MP Maheish Girri and RSS’s student front ABVP.
Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said an FIR under Section of 124 A of IPC (sedition) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) has been registered against unknown persons at Vasant Kunj (North) Police station and the video footage of the event was being examined for further action.
Marking the death anniversary of Guru, a group of students on Tuesday held an event on the campus and shouted slogans against government for hanging him, despite varsity administration having cancelled the permission following a complaint by ABVP members, who termed the activity as “anti-national”.
The JNU administration has already instituted a “disciplinary” enquiry as to how the event took place despite withdrawal of permission and said it will wait for the probe report before taking any further action.
Meanwhile, Girri has written to the JNU Vice Chancellor as well as the HRD Ministry seeking action against the organisers and participants of the Tuesday event. He also filed a complaint with the police today.
ABVP members had already filed a police complaint yesterday and submitted a purported video of the event showing the organsiers shouting slogans calling Guru a “martyr” and clashing with the protesters, to both police and the VC.
Earlier in the day, the left-dominated JNU students union distanced itself from the controversy, saying ABVP was opposed to it and not the union. Of the four top posts of the union, three are held by Leftist AISA and AISF and one by ABVP.
The Left leaders of the union also termed the ABVP complaint as an attempt to curb the “democratic traditions” of the university.
There were protests on the campus for the second day today with slogan shouting by the two groups.
Meanwhile, BJP National Secretary Shrikant Sharma has condemned the event, saying there were a handful of people who were trying to “pollute the atmosphere” in JNU.
“Slogans against India were raised and a terrorist was called a martyr. This is unfortunate and BJP condemns it in strongest terms. We hope that the university administration will take strong action against such people,” Sharma added.
The controversy at JNU erupted earlier this week when some students had pasted posters across the campus inviting people to a protest march against “judicial killing of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhatt” and in solidarity with “struggle of Kashmiri people for their democratic right to self determination” at varsity’s Sabarmati dhaba.
Members of the ABVP objected to the event and wrote to the Vice Chancellor that such kind protest should not be held on campus of an educational institution, prompting the university administration to order cancellation of the march as they “feared” it might “disrupt” peace.